Connecticut college student sentenced to 55 years for sword killing.
Peter Manfredonia, a former University of Connecticut student, was sentenced to 55 years in prison for killing two people, one with a samurai sword, and kidnapping a woman in 2020. He pleaded guilty to murder, first-degree assault, and home invasion in the Willington case, and murder and kidnapping in the first degree with a firearm in the Derby case. The two sentences will be served concurrently. Manfredonia apologized in court and his lawyer said he was having a psychotic episode at the time of the killings. The crimes sparked a multistate manhunt before he was arrested at a truck stop in Maryland.